Dissipative Soliton (12 nJ) From an All-Fiber Passively Mode-Locked Laser With Large Normal Dispersion

Author

Ouyang, Chunmei ; Shum, Perry Ping ; Wu, Kan ; Wong, Jia Haur ; Wu, Xuan ; Lam, Huy Quoc ; Aditya, Sheel

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

3

Issue

5

fYear

2011

Firstpage

881

Lastpage

887

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an all-fiber erbium-doped fiber laser operating in the large normal dispersion regime. The laser is mode-locked by use of nonlinear polarization rotation and generates dissipative solitons (DSs) with large positive chirp and steep spectral edges. Within the cavity, there is no additional spectral filter used for self-starting and stabilizing the mode-locking of the laser. The output DSs have a duration of 30.5 ps with pulse energies up to 12 nJ, which can be compressed externally to 240 fs.

Keywords

erbium; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; laser mode locking; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; all-fiber erbium-doped fiber laser; all-fiber passively mode-locked laser; dissipative soliton; large normal dispersion; large positive chirp; laser cavity; laser stabilizing; nonlinear polarization rotation; steep spectral edges; Cavity resonators; Chirp; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Fiber lasers; mode-locked lasers; pulse compression; pulse shaping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2169659

Filename

6029272